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D-Index
48
Citations
10894
World Ranking
5450
National Ranking
1995

Philip R. Berke publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Philip R. Berke sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 121 publications — 24th percentile

24% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Philip R. Berke D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Philip R. Berke sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 48 D-Index — 44th percentile

44% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Philip R. Berke is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their research primarily engages with environmental science, social sciences, and engineering, with a focus on applied resilience and hazard management in urban planning contexts.

The main fields of study for their work include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Social Sciences
  • Engineering

Within these fields, their research covers specific subfields such as:

  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Civil and Structural Engineering
  • Ocean Engineering
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

The scope of their research focuses on several key topics:

  • Disaster Management and Resilience
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis
  • Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
  • Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics
  • Supply Chain Resilience and Risk Management
  • Climate change impacts on agriculture

Recent representative publications include:

  • Using a resilience scorecard to improve local planning for vulnerability to hazards and climate change, 2021, Cities
  • Integrated infrastructure-plan analysis for resilience enhancement of post-hazards access to critical facilities, 2021, Cities
  • Making Room for the River, 2020, Journal of the American Planning Association
  • Planning to Exacerbate Flooding: Evaluating a Houston, Texas, Network of Plans in Place during Hurricane Harvey Using a Plan Integration for Resilience Scorecard, 2021, Natural Hazards Review
  • Institutional Connectedness in Resilience Planning and Management of Interdependent Infrastructure Systems, 2020, Journal of Management in Engineering

Berke collaborates frequently with several coauthors throughout their research career, including:

  • Matthew Malecha
  • Siyu Yu
  • Ali Mostafavi
  • Sierra Woodruff
  • Malini Roy

Their work is published predominantly in the following venues:

  • Journal of Planning Education and Research
  • Cities
  • UNC Libraries
  • Natural Hazards Review
  • Journal of the American Planning Association

Best Publications

  • Are we planning for sustainable development? An evaluation of 30 comprehensive plans

    Philip R. Berke;Maria Manta Conroy

  • Recovery after Disaster: Achieving Sustainable Development, Mitigation and Equity

    Philip R. Berke;Jack Kartez;Dennis Wenger

  • Natural Hazard Mitigation: Recasting Disaster Policy And Planning

    Edward J Kaiser;David Godschalk;Timothy Beatley;Philip Berke

  • Urban land use planning

    Philip Berke

  • Planning for Postdisaster Resiliency

    Philip R. Berke;Thomas J. Campanella

  • Does Sustainable Development Offer a New Direction for Planning? Challenges for the Twenty-First Century

    Philip R. Berke

  • What makes a good sustainable development plan? An analysis of factors that influence principles of sustainable development

    Maria Manta Conroy;Philip R Berke

  • Making Governments Plan: State Experiments in Managing Land Use

    Raymond J. Burby;Peter J. May;Philip R. Berke

  • Evaluating Plan Implementation: A Conformance-Based Methodology

    Lucie Laurian;Maxine Day;Philip Berke;Neil Ericksen

  • Enhancing Plan Quality: Evaluating the Role of State Planning Mandates for Natural Hazard Mitigation

    Philip R. Berke

  • Planning for Resiliency: Evaluation of State Hazard Mitigation Plans under the Disaster Mitigation Act

    Philip Berke;Gavin Smith;Ward Lyles

  • Evaluation of Networks of Plans and Vulnerability to Hazards and Climate Change: A Resilience Scorecard

    Philip Berke;Galen Newman;Jaekyung Lee;Tabitha Combs

  • What drives plan implementation? Plans, planning agencies and developers

    Lucie Laurian;Maxine Day;Michael Backhurst;Philip Berke

  • Natural-Hazard Reduction and Sustainable Development: A Global Assessment

    Philip R. Berke

  • Planning for Earthquakes: Risk, Politics, and Policy

    Philip Berke;Timothy Beatley

  • Greening Development to Protect Watersheds: Does New Urbanism Make a Difference?

    Philip R. Berke;Joe Macdonald;Nancy White;Michael Holmes

  • A comparison of local hazard mitigation plan quality in six states, USA

    Ward Lyles;Philip Berke;Gavin Smith

  • Reducing Natural Hazard Risks Through State Growth Management

    Philip R. Berke

  • Assessing the Quality of Rural Hazard Mitigation Plans in the Southeastern United States

    Jennifer Horney;Mai Nguyen;David Salvesen;Caroline Dwyer

  • The development of a participatory assessment technique for infrastructure: Neighborhood-level monitoring towards sustainable infrastructure systems

    Marccus D. Hendricks;Michelle A. Meyer;Nasir G. Gharaibeh;Shannon Van Zandt

  • Individual actual or perceived property flood risk: did it predict evacuation from Hurricane Isabel in North Carolina, 2003?

    Jennifer A. Horney;Pia D.M. MacDonald;Marieke Van Willigen;Philip R. Berke

Frequent Co-Authors

Yan Song
Yan Song University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Arnold Vedlitz
Arnold Vedlitz Texas A&M University
Thomas J. McDonald
Thomas J. McDonald Texas A&M University
Peter J. May
Peter J. May University of Washington
Raymond J. Burby
Raymond J. Burby University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Daniel A. Rodriguez
Daniel A. Rodriguez University of California, Berkeley
Jay S. Kaufman
Jay S. Kaufman McGill University
Lawrence E. Band
Lawrence E. Band University of Virginia
Ratana Chuenpagdee
Ratana Chuenpagdee Memorial University of Newfoundland
Steven M. Quiring
Steven M. Quiring The Ohio State University

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